About the Artwork
Still Life with a Dead Swan
ca. 1651
Jan Baptist Weenix
1621-1659
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 72 5/8 × 73 3/4 × 4 15/16 inches (184.5 × 187.3 × 12.5 cm) Framed: 60 × 60 1/2 inches (152.4 × 153.7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Ralph Harman Booth
26.22
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
R.A. Tatton (Cuerdon Hall, Bamber Bridge, Preston, Lancashire, England)
June 16, 1925, sold by (Christie's, consigned by Agnews on behalf of the owner, London, England) auction Tatton, lot 61 [as Jan Weenix]
1925-1926, purchased by (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, England) [for 370 guineas]
by 1926, purchased by Ralph Harman Booth
1926-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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H.J. "A Still Life Painting by Jan Weenix." Bulletin of the DIA 7, no. 6 (1926): p. 67 (ill.). [as Jan Weenix.]
Valentiner, W.R. "Travel Notes" Bulletin of the DIA 10, no. 1 (1928): pp. 6-12 (ill.). [as Jan Baptist Weenix.]
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 246 (ill.).
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p.143, no. 246.
Stechow, W. "Jan Baptist Weenix." Art Quarterly 11, no. 3 (1948): pp. 181-199 (fig. 9).
Dutch Painting, The Golden Age. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art, et al. New York, 1954, cat. 89 (ill.).
Stechow, W. "Optics and opulence: a brilliant view of Dutch Painting." Art News 53, no. 7 (November 1954): pp. 18-25; 74-75 (ill.).
Ginnings, R.J. "The Art of Jan Baptist Weenix and Jan Weenix." Diss., University of Delaware, 1970, p. 113 ff.
Sullivan, S.A. "Jan Baptist Weenix. Still Life with a Dead Swan" Bulletin of the DIA 57, no. 2 (1979): pp. 64-71 (fig. 1).
Sullivan, S.A.The Dutch Gamepiece. Montclair, 1984, p. 87, note 47.
Masters of Light Dutch Painters in Utrecht during the Golden Age. Exh. cat., Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. San Francisco, 1997, pp. 367-369 (ill.).
Still-Life Paintings from the Netherlands 1550-1720. Exh. cat., Rijksmueum, et al. Amsterdam, 1999, pp. 198-200, cat. 41 (ill.).
Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts, London, 2004, pp. 260-261.
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Jan Baptist Weenix, Still Life with a Dead Swan, ca. 1651, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Ralph Harman Booth, 26.22.
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